[JoSixChip]

Cruz is the only real conservative in the race

Not even close. Trump is by far the most conservative candidate in both deed and platform. You, nor rush beck, are the final arbiter on what is conservative and what is not. You are just not that important, no matter what your mom told you.

[JSDude1]

Please do tell how Trumps positions are better than Cruz’s (and more conservative)?

[Mac n Jac]

“Trump is by far the most conservative candidate in both deed and platform”

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You must be from CO or WA cause you’re smoking some mighty fine weed to think that.

[A Conservative Thinker]

I’m fed up with your dishonesty and here’s my challenge: let’s open up a new thread and let’s debate it...you can bring forth Trump’s mythical conservatism and I’ll bring Ted Cruz’ solid, unquestionable conservative credentials. I do note you’ve already set up an escape clause by claiming no one is the final “arbiter, which really begs the question of how you plan on redefining it.

[Dan Walsh]

Trumps against flat tax, against entitlement reform, against Kelo in favor of ethanol subsidizes, how is that conservative?

[Elderberry]

Trump is by far the most conservative candidate in both deed and platform

I believe you may be right, if you are using Trump's definition of conservative.

I heard him state that since the root word of conservative is conserve, then conservative means one who conserves money.

And since Trump intends to conserve his money, that makes him a conservative.

[catfish1957]

Trump is by far the most conservative candidate

Be honest with me.....Did you really say that with a straight face?

[bubman]

You are certainly entertaining. Trump conservative? LOL

[Auslander154]

To all the Trump supporters - please tell me who Trump is going to appoint to the Supreme Court ? His sister ?

I know Cruz had to go along with Bush and go with Roberts, but Roberts was not Cruz’s first choice.

Why isn’t the most important issue - the future of the Supreme Court - of more concern here at FR?

[Charles Henrickson]

Trump is not a conservative, he is an unstable person, untrustworthy, intellectually lazy, a nasty guy, and nobody likes him. In fact, surveys have shown that Trump is the most unliked candidate in the history of unlikedness. He has a low ceiling and may be unelectable even against what the Dems put up this year.

[Theophilus]

I'm vastly more important than even my mom imagined.

At lest I have a mom. You hatched from a rock.

[poconopundit]

...You, nor Rush, Beck, are the final arbiter on what is conservative and what is not.

What's funny is if you actually read the transcript, Rush is not dissing Trump.

In fact, the headline is misleading.   Rush jumps around quite a bit here.   It's not a monologue, but one of those dialogues with a caller, so his logic is a bit hard to follow -- and maybe that's on purpose.

Now notice, on Monday, Rush was defending Rubio because Christie and Bush were hitting him hard.

Today he's sticking up for Cruz -- saying how great a conservative he is.   And Cruz fans are eager to hear a pep talk today.

So Rush is the Mother Teresa of the GOP.  He's the guy you turn to when your brother smacks you on the kisser.   And we need a mediator like that.

His goal is to keep the different factions of the non-Establishment side of the GOP together -- and that's a very good thing.

I'm convinced he will support whoever we ultimately choose.   Thanks, Rush.

[spacejunkie2001]

You can’t just redefine conservatism to suit your candidate Jo. Trump broke through the media PC hype but he is NOT conservative. You don’t advocate for new lgbt rules or gov’t paying for healthcare or touchback amnesty, etc. etc

I know you like him; everyone knows. But that does not make him conservative.

[ealgeone]

Well aren’t you a ray of sunshine!

[kik5150]

[SeaHawkFan]

Cruz paid his loan back, which was secured with his own assets.

Trump owes big banks more than $150 million that he may or may not pay back. He’s weaseled out of millions in loans in the past. He will do anything to screw over the banks if he can.

[Hoodat]

Trump is by far the most conservative candidate in both deed and platform.

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So which of these is Trump's most conservative position?

1. Raising taxes
2. Funding Planned Parenthood
3. Government-paid healthcare
4. Expediting the return of illegals

[Forgotten Amendments]

I guess I have seen dumber posts on FR. But not more illiterate tags.

FReepers, these Trumpodytes are HERE! For Gawd’s sake, doesn’t conservatism mean ANYTHING???

[SmokingJoe]

Trump is by far the most conservative candidate in both deed and platform

On what planet is that?

[LouD]

Not even close. Trump is by far the most conservative candidate in both deed and platform.

You can start by telling us how supporting lots of liberals (and a few RINOs) over the past thirty years makes him a conservative? Oh, that's right - he was just buying influence, because he's a crony capitalist.

But he himself "can't be bought" - despite by his own admission engaging in questionable ethical practices like buying influence? Trump's just cut out the middleman; He's his own special interest.

Or how his contributions to Harry Reid's campaign when he was challenged by an actual conservative, Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle, who wanted to fight ObamaCare, make him a conservative? I don't know about you, but I was working for candidates like her, and writing checks to her and candidates like her, while Trump was working against us.

Or how supporting government controlled health care makes him a conservative? Seems we on FR (and presumably, most of us are conservatives - those of you who think Trump is a conservative excepted, of course) were all up in arms over that a few years ago...

Or how imposing tariffs is conservative? We used to quote Adam Smith and Jack Kemp, and believe in the sanctity of markets... Those tariffs, btw, are not just a liberal idea, but they're a dumb liberal idea, and will do nothing but raise prices for American consumers, and destroy jobs for American workers. If you want to make us more competitive, walls (economic or otherwise) are not the answer.

Or how instead of blaming the policies of the democrats for failed policies which have destroyed economic growth over the past seven plus years, he blames Juan the dishwasher over at the neighborhood greasy spoon? That is not to say that we must control our borders - clearly we must - but it is not even remotely close to the biggest problem this country faces.

Trump is no conservative. Conservatives don't spend their entire lives funding and supporting the opposition, only to make a foxhole conversion because they believe (correctly, as it turns out) that there are enough profoundly gullible people with either no intellectual basis for their purported beliefs, or with no core beliefs whatsoever, who are simply willing to support a reality TV star full of empty promises, unworkable policy pronouncements, and one very defective ideological compass.

[LouD]